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Dear Quillers #1 - Plots and Sub-Plots

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Apologies for taking so long to get around to starting the Dear Quillers column. I’ve spent the last few weeks chasing my own tail. Sadly one of our westies was taken ill and died, which, any pet lover will know, is just as painful as losing any member of the family. I also had a birthday bash on Facebook which went very well. I’ve been for physiotherapy for my Achilles Tendonitis and have to go back in 3 weeks to see how the exercises are going and then to sort out my shoulder. But now onto Dear Quillers. If you remember, Sue Barnard won my first competition on the blog, with her question: Books cannot live by romance alone - so what advice can you offer for helping to construct a convincing and compelling sub-plot? Some romance publishers don’t want any sub-plot and do indeed live by romance alone. Mills and Boon novels are wonderfully constructed to deal with just the emotions and conflict between the hero and heroine. The Romantic Novelists Association Awards are

The Last Dance - Bobbie Blandford Book One - Now on Amazon

<br /> I'm pleased to announce that The Last Dance , the first in the Bobbie Blandford series, is now available to download from Amazon. The above link takes you to Amazon.co.uk, but it can also be downloaded from local Amazon sites all over the world. It is 1960 when WPC Bobbie Blandford starts her new job as the only woman at Stony End police station. As she chases down runaway cars, errant teenagers and attempts to investigate the murder of businessman Lionel Mapping, she is unaware that it will raise questions about her father's death and a life that Bobbie had forgotten. What does it all have to do with handsome doctor Leo Stanhope and just who can she trust in a male dominated world?

A Place of Peace - Romantic Summer Mystery to download

I'm pleased to announce that my latest novella, A Place of Peace, is now available to download for Amazon Kindle. At only 77p, and at only 27k, it makes for a reasonably priced and quick summer read. When Nell goes to stay on the beautiful Barratt Island for three months, she hopes to escape the shame she left behind in England. She soon meets gorgeous police chief, Colm Barratt, and scheming socialite Julia Silkwood, whose husband seems to be failing quickly. With Nell's over-active imagination running riot, she fears she could lose Colm forever.